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2 African-American proportion of state and territory populations (1790–2020) Toggle African-American proportion of state and territory populations (1790–2020) subsection 2.1 Free blacks as a percentage out of the total black population by U.S. region and U.S. state between 1790 and 1860
He described the nation's potential with "a territory unsurpassed in fertility" and "a population of 40,000,000 free people." He celebrated Reconstruction successes, noting that seven states had been restored to the Union and urging Congress to address violations in Georgia, where African American legislators had been unseated. [1]
The total population is 6,981,974, making it the 16th most populous state as of 2023 estimates. [5] Massachusetts has a density of 895 people per square mile, [6] making it the third most dense of the fifty states (fifth including District of Columbia and Puerto Rico).
According to census information for 2010–2014, an estimated 180,657 people in Boston (28.2% of Boston's population) are Black/African American, either alone or in combination with another race. 160,342 (25.1% of Boston's population) are Black/African American alone. 14,763 (2.3% of Boston's population) are White and Black/African American ...
Who delivered the first State of the Union address? George Washington on Jan. 8, 1790, in New York. Does it have to be a speech? No. For his first address on Dec. 8, 1801, Thomas Jefferson sent ...
Before the Civil War, more than half of the 2,000 African Americans in Boston lived on the north slope of Beacon Hill; blacks also lived in the West End north of Cambridge Street, and in the North End. [5] These areas gradually were occupied by new groups of immigrants after African Americans moved to southern areas of Boston.
The Massachusetts State Monument on the Antietam Battlefield. In all, 12,976 servicemen from Massachusetts died during the war, about eight percent of those who enlisted and about one percent of the state's population (the population of Massachusetts in 1860 was 1,231,066). [38] Official statistics are not available for the number of wounded.
The president is invited to address Congress by the House speaker, in accordance with his constitutional duty to “from time to time” deliver a message outlining top issues facing Americans and ...